Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a longtime jazz master and advocate for jazz as America's classical music. Akron audiences will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rooms have been buzzing with the sound of jazz legend Wynton Marsalis' smooth trumpet playing for over half a century now. The ...

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Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire, and proto-rap group The Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz composer ...

Few women in early jazz were instrumentalists, and the earliest great female jazz musicians were nearly all vocalists. Prime ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Black music traditions such as jazz are central to celebrations of Juneteenth, says civil rights lawyer and jazz pianist Bryan Stevenson. That’s why he and Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz ...

He played the archetypal bandleader in the film Tune In Tomorrow. Clean-living, occupied with his profession, and a hard-working artist, Wynton Marsalis managed his acting role in much the same way he ...

Wynton Marsalis left his native New Orleans decades ago to build a name for himself in New York. He did more than build a name. He built Jazz at Lincoln Center, an orchestra, educational program and ...

Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis is no stranger to the classroom. The winner of nine Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Medal of the Arts estimates that he’s taught at more than 1,000 schools over ...

SAN DIEGO – Louis Armstrong? Or Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth, Wind & Fire and proto-rap group the Last Poets? It is perfectly logical to assume New Orleans-bred trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning ...